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Newspaper
Keowee Courier
Location
Walhalla, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1905
Page
2
A dying girl asks her father for “something beautiful for God” as her white casket lies ready. The piece wonders who gives flowers their birth and who powers beauty, suggesting the child’s request transcends earthly creeds and time. It frames beauty as belonging to the divine and urges hopeful acts for others along life’s thorny path.
Beaufort hosts the Grand Lodge Knights of Pythias with over 800 officers delegates and visitors present. Governor Heyward attends as guests while 19 officers are elected for the coming year and plans for future meetings are set amid tours and naval visits.
The new whipping law for wife beaters goes into effect in Oregon. It allows up to 20 lashes as an additional punishment alongside existing fines or imprisonment, to be administered inside county jails by the sheriff or a designated officer. The old punishments remain in force.
Nan Patterson will appear in a New York theatre and later with a road company under a two year deal with Surtig and Seaman. The contract features a sliding remuneration scale starting at about 1800 per week for several weeks, with royalties from her book likely substantial.
Ohio ex-bank president Ohliger pleaded guilty in federal court to issuing a draft with insufficient funds. Judge Taylor sentenced him to eight years in the Ohio penitentiary. Col. Talbert at Mdgefield County Sunday School Convention urged firm prohibition, denouncing the dispensary as a great national evil.
Manila May 21 news reports Moro chief Pala, long pursued on Jolo by Gen Wood’s forces, has been killed. Surviving followers are being hunted, with Palawaa’s reported 600 armed men largely wiped out in the uprising.
Murray's Tron Mixture is advertised as a cure and tonic by the Murray Drug Company in Columbia. Hiram Cronk, last War of 1812 veteran, was buried with full military honors at Cypress Hill cemetery after lying in state at New York City Hall for 24 hours, with 150 police and a large crowd, mostly women and children, present.
New York club women back Mia Arthur Dodge’s call for large families after Richmond Va remarks. They praise twelve children as a healthy middle, cite an Atlanta mother with twenty, and note mixed views from Harriet Stanton Blatch and Mrs Dore Lyon. Some dissenters urge limits, while a Charleston compilation lists state senators and representatives by profession and background.
A clubbing deal with Charleston Semi Weekly News and Courier offers The Keowee Courier and the Semi Weekly News and Courier at 1.50 per year. Keowee Courier is well regarded in Oconee County and praised as a leading paper in South Carolina. The Semi Weekly News and Courier publishes Wednesdays and Saturdays with detailed state news and full AP dispatches. The combo costs 1.60, giving readers two top South Carolina papers for about the price of one.
On April 1 the Atlanta Constitution began a triweekly edition issued Mondays Wednesdays and Fridays. Arrangements allow supplying readers both the Koowee Courier and the Constitution triweekly for 81.76 per year. Also offered is the Weekly Constitution with the Koowee Courier at 140 per year, subscriptions to be prepaid.
In two weeks of combat on Jolo island Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood’s troops clash with 600 followers led by the outlaw Moro chief Pala. Reported casualties include about 300 of Pala’s men. Pala and remnants are said to prefer death to capture and he seeks revenge after clashes with a British settlement at Lahad.
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